Does the Missouri carry cruise missiles?
Well, not anymore, but yes we did. USS Missouri carries eight armored box launchers (ABLs) each with four Tomahawk cruise missiles. During Desert Storm we fired 28 of our 32 Tomahawks. Interesting fact about the Tomahawks, they are the only thing on the ship that we cannot re-supply at sea. They have to be loaded onto the ship with a big crane and to do that we have to be in port. Once we’ve fired our 32 missiles, that’s all there is until we pull into port somewhere to reload.
